University partnerships can fizzle over time, notes the National Council on Teacher Quality. The faculty may lose interest.
University of South Florida has given up on its charter school, handing control to the district, reports Inside Higher Education.
In recent years, faculty members have virtually been absent from the operations of the school. Even student [...]
Archive for November, 2008
From Neatorama: Kunming, China students are getting ad-bedecked school uniforms.
The stylish orange jackets are covered with the logos of Marlboro, Ferrari, Vodafone and Shell:
The parents were shocked to see that their children now looked like they were part of a Formula One pit crew, but in China there is little the parents can [...]
Karin Chenoweth takes on Charles Murray’s educational determinism on Britannica Blog.
For one thing, people have genetic limitations, but in most cases no one really knows exactly what they are, what they limit, or how to measure those limitations — in part because the human brain has the capacity to compensate for those limitations in [...]
Hundreds of colleges are using “a training program that teaches professors and students not to take campus threats lying down but to fight back with any improvised weapon, from a backpack to a laptop computer,” reports AP.
In his acceptance speech, Sen. Barack Obama called for giving a world-class education to every student. How?
I’ll invest in early childhood education. I’ll recruit an army of new teachers, and pay them higher salaries, and give them more support. And in exchange, I’ll ask for higher standards and more accountability.
I heard that [...]
John McCain went to 20 schools before Annapolis, as his father, a Navy submariner, was transferred from base to base.
When they lived in Indonesia, Barack Obama’s mother woke him at 4 am to study correspondence-school English lessons.
Both went on to elite private schools: Obama started Punahou in fifth grade; McCain went to an [...]
Only 30 percent of young people 17 to 24 years old are qualified for military service; the rest are ineligible because of health issues (especially obesity), academic problems (low test scores, no diploma) or an arrest record. The Army has started an intensive GED-prep school for recruits who test in the top half of the [...]
Mimi’s class is getting new “seat sacks emblazoned with the school’s name and mascot.” But that blew the budget, so she’s not getting any paper.
. . . a seat sack is a contraption made of canvas that slips over the back of a student’s chair like a slipcover. Think Pottery Barn for Teachers in [...]
Ninth-graders are getting their own schools to ease the transition to high school.
“People just really value having our ninth-graders have a chance to develop intellectually, emotionally and socially outside of the context of a large comprehensive high school setting,” said Kenneth Graham, superintendent of Rush-Henrietta Central School District near Rochester, N.Y. “They don’t have [...]
SAT scores haven’t changed for two years in a row now. The class of ‘08 averaged 502 in reading, 494 in writing and 515 in math.
The longer, three-part SAT seems to be driving some test-takers away; more students are taking the rival ACT, which saw a slight decline in scores this year from [...]
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